Seek and Destroy: Modern Medicine

A Doctor from Purdue University addressed the campus of BYU-Idaho and shared his studies on creating "Smart Drugs"

October 21, 2016Writer: Myles Primm

Doctor Philip Low is the Director of the Purdue Institue for Drug Discovery and is a distinguished professor of Chemistry at Purdue University.

Dr. Low and his team design "smart drugs" which specifically target diseased cells without showing significant uptake by healthy cells. These drugs are used to diagnose and treat such diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, malaria, influenza virus, multiple sclerosis and heart disease.

He and his wife Joan met while serving their missions in Germany. They came home and got married and had five children.